Filming for Knight & Day was to have begun tomorrow in Cadiz, Spain, but permission has been suspended by the Cadiz mayor’s office after two women were injured today by bulls that were part of the movie's local production. Although the women’s injuries were characterized as “slight,” the mayor’s office told the Diario de Cadiz [...]
French screen goddess turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has appealed to the government of Catalonia to back a campaign to ban bullfighting in the northeastern Spanish region. Skip related content
The Popular Legislative Initiative, which has gathered 180,000 signatures, calls for a change in Catalonia's animal protection law, which bans killing or mistreating animals in [...]
A female Angolan giraffe also known as the Smoky Giraffe has been born at the Selwo Adventure Park in Estepona, in the province of Malaga.According to a report on Typically Spanish her name is Antenea and she is the first female of this endangered species to be born in Spain.
Just a few days after her [...]
On Saturday August 8th, officers from SEPRONA (the environment arm of the Guardia Civil) found fifteen vultures and a dog that had been poisoned in the vicinity of the town of Palencia Osornillo.
Twelve of the birds were still alive, albeit in very poor condition, and were recoverd to the Centre for Animal Recovery in Burgos. [...]
A group of dogs have been rescued from a home in Madrid, where they were being kept in cramped conditions, in a house of 40 square meters in the town of San Sebastian de los Reyes.
The house did not meet the requirements of hygiene and health for the welfare of dogs, mostly because it was [...]
As a general rule, the most frequently used words in human languages tend to be the shortest.
The same law applies to dolphins slapping their tails, diving, flopping sideways, and performing other movements when surface swimming, according to Spanish and British researchers.
“Patterns of dolphin behaviour at the surface obey the same law of brevity as human [...]
Portugal undertook to implement and set forth – in three years at the latest – an in-detail programme with at least a potential area to reintroduce the Iberian lynx.
Should these specimens breed, they could be introduced in the captivity breeding programme or in reintroduction projects both in Spain and Portugal.
The Minister of Environment and Seaside [...]
An international team of scientists has discovered an extinct rodent species, based on fossil tooth remains found in Alborache, Valencia. Eomyops noeliae, from the Eomyidae family, represents the oldest find within this genus in the world.
The small number of fossils found has prevented the scientists from the University of Valencia (UV), who have led this [...]